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Murder Miners cover art

Murder Miners

JForce Games · 2014-07-25

SteamMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 25, 2014 (Mac), Jul 25, 2014 (Linux), Jun 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 27, 2019 (Xbox One), Sep 09, 2012 (Xbox 360)

The #1 rated Xbox Live Indie Game. Halo-inspired. Destructible/constructible environments. Vehicles. Zombie survival. Hookshots. Infection mode: Be the zombie & eat the dead to level up your zombie abilities. Community playdates are still hosted every week, join us!

5
playing now
86%
positive of 6.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 51 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 159k–382k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,372 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-09-12) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 17 of 18 observed days · $3.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
555520182026Week of 2018-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-08-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $0.972015-04-06 — best price $0.992015-09-07 — best price $3.992016-02-05 — best price $0.992016-05-16 — best price $1.992016-07-09 — best price $1.992016-09-12 — best price $0.492016-11-21 — best price $0.992017-03-27 — best price $0.992017-10-16 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-07-23 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-03-25 — best price $0.992019-09-16 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-03-02 — best price $1.012020-04-29 — best price $2.192020-08-17 — best price $0.982020-12-07 — best price $0.982021-04-26 — best price $0.982021-10-28 — best price $0.982022-01-27 — best price $0.982022-07-11 — best price $0.982022-12-22 — best price $0.982023-06-19 — best price $0.982023-12-04 — best price $0.982024-04-15 — best price $0.982024-08-26 — best price $0.982025-02-10 — best price $0.982025-06-27 — best price $0.982025-11-17 — best price $0.982026-03-30 — best price $0.982026-08-28 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
27.1%
earned "Kill 50 AI Zombies"
0.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform Multiplayer1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,0671%46
Xbox One (Xbox)1,19220%10

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FPSIndieRetroVoxelActionSniperShooterZombiesMultiplayerFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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